If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.